sewing-bee

🧵 Data on the Great British Sewing Bee

🧵 Sourced from Wikipedia.

🧵 Inspiration from the bakeoff package

🧵 Tables:

  • series ✓
  • sewers ✓
  • ratings ✓
  • results ✓
  • challenge_names ✓
  • episodes ✓
  • episode themes ✓

🧵 New skills to be gained

  • editing Wikipedia pages (to make the table formats consistent over the seasons) ✓
  • using {rvest} package to extract data from web pages ✓
  • using a badge in the readme.md file (shields.io) ✓
  • contributing a dataset to TidyTuesday using {tidytuesdayR}

🧵 Overall winner rates by standing after episode 4

This looks at the rankings and wins for the first four episodes for the sewers that lasted until then, to see the likelihood of becoming the overall winner.

🧵 Viewership charts

Inspired by the bakeoff recipes, here are 10 ways of looking at the same viewership data.

🧵 Elimination and results charts